About the PHASE Initiative

About PHASE

We’re partnering with Kaiser Permanente in Northern California to support community health organizations in reducing heart attacks and strokes in high-risk patient populations. The program is Kaiser Permanente’s award-winning Preventing Heart Attacks and Strokes Everyday (PHASE), an evidence-based approach that first helped Kaiser reduce heart disease morbidity by 60 percent among its members.

PHASE is a population health management program to care for people with or at risk of cardiovascular disease using Kaiser Permanente’s evidence based clinical protocol that, when followed, reduces cardiovascular disease.

Kaiser Permanente’s Community Investment Approach

Kaiser Permanente’s mission is to “provide high quality, affordable health care and to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve.”

Our investments are based Community Health Needs Assessments, done in collaboration with community stakeholders:

We focus on meeting immediate, pressing needs and making long-term sustainable change for the most vulnerable in our communities.

We also focus on where we can make the biggest impact based on our more than 75 years of experience

Access to Care remains important need across all our communities

Evolution of PHASe

PHASE (Preventing Heart Attacks and Strokes Every day) was developed by KP as an evidence based, population health management program for our members that had or were at risk of cardiovascular disease

In 2006, KP began working with our health care safety net partners in Northern California, providing both funding and clinical expertise, to translate and implement PHASE in community-based care settings

Since 2006, KP NCAL Community Benefit has provided over $16 million in grant funding to expand and deepen PHASE